Fairie Ality Style

Presents pages from the catalog of the top designer of couture and accessories for the fairy world, interspersed with descriptions of the events to which these feather and flower creations will be worn.

Do you believe in fairies? How about high fashion? Enter the exquisite world of fairie fashion – where feathered hats are designed for maximum lift, oak-leaf jackets boast ample wing vents, and flower-petal flats are easily removable for flight. In the fairie world, there is only one top designer of couture and accessories. . . . Prepare to be enchanted! While humans go about their workaday lives, there is a secret world of well-dressed fairies flitting about in fragile fashions that would take your breath away – if only you could see them. Well, now you can. For the first time ever, elusive fairie couturier Ellwand allows mortals a peek at his ethereal designs in Fairie-ality, a catalogue so spectacularly crafted it befits a fairie queen herself. Showcased are nearly 150 creations – including dresses, jackets, trousers, shoes, hats, and delicate unmentionables – fashioned wholly from feathers, flower petals, shells, seeds, and other materials from nature. Consider these special features: Extraordinary production elements, including three specially selected paper stocks; metallic inks; fold-out booklets; vellum envelope with removable fashion card; and numerous half-, third-, and quarter-pages, notably to showcase garments for a playful mix & match, offering dozens of outfits to create. Drawings by celebrated fashion illustrator David Downton, capturing the graceful, but rarely glimpsed, fairie attired in Ellwand’s designs. Witty and delightfully romantic captions by Eugenie Bird. A breathless narrative by a young fairie guiding us from The Season’s start through May Day revelry and a Fairie Tale Wedding. Filled with authentic fairie lore that will lure fairie lovers by the legion, this superbly designed volume also offers many clever nods to human fashion history. Its fun, fanciful costume descriptions will amuse the fashion-savvy everywhere, while the stunning array of fashions themselves – a veritable dress-up dream –will leave readers of all ages spellbound.

A shimmering and eminently desirable catalogue of enchanting fairie outfits; Walker are delighted to be involved with the House of Ellwand during its debut in the fashion world. In this exciting collaboration, Walker are publishing the source for the very latest in fairie fashion. Haute couturier M. Ellwand has created a shimmering new collection, with elegant yet oh-so-wearable fairie attire for every eventuality. Delivered by crow courier, parcelled up in oak leaf paper, this exquisite book arrived one morning on the desk of Walker Books' commissioning editor. Not since the photographs of the Cottingley fairies has such a unique fairie artefact crossed over into our world and created such a stir.

This follow-up to 'Fairie-ality' features dainty fairy furnishings and fashion inspired directly from nature with an introduction by David Ellwand.

In a journal-within-a-journal, stunning photographs reveal the magic of the natural world and the mystery of the imagination as a flint stone with a hole through it leads to a search for fairies that haunt the English Downs. By the creator of Fairie-ality.

This exquisite anthology welcomes you into an enchanted realm rich with myth, mystery, romance, and abounding natural beauty. Gorgeous fine art and photographs, literature, essays, do-it-yourself projects, and recipes provide hours of reading, viewing, and dreaming pleasure along with a multitude of ideas for modern-day living and entertaining with a distrinctive fairy touch.

This text is a catalogue of enchanting fairie outfits as featured in various magazines. Haute couturier M. Ellwand has created a shimmering collection, with elegant yet oh-so-wearable fairie attire for every eventuality.